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Nov 27, 2024; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski (8) and Montreal Canadiens right wing Brendan Gallagher (11) fight during the second period at Nationwide Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russell LaBounty-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Thursday, April 11, 2026 \u2013 7:00 PM ET
Centre Bell, Montreal
TV: FDSNOH; Radio: 97.1 FM<\/p>\n
Columbus Blue Jackets (39-28-12, 90 points, 5th Metro, 11th East)<\/p>\n
at<\/p>\n
Montreal Canadiens (47-22-10, 104 points, 2nd Atlantic, 3rd East)<\/p>\n
While the Jackets are not technically out of the race, Montreal is very much in contention for the division lead. Expect a good effort from the Habs including their newest 50 goal scorer Caufield. Cole did have some nice words to about Johnny after reaching the milestone; he wears number 13 in tribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a reminder every time I put my jersey and my helmet (on). It\u2019s weird to think about, but every time you get to do that, it\u2019s an opportunity to represent him, and remember him, so I guess it\u2019s a special thing to kinda, you know, do that, but I guess you know he\u2019s behind me and he\u2019s looking down on us. Everybody that he knew he made a better person, so no, I can\u2019t obviously, you know, give him a hug right now, but you know, I wish I could.\u201d<\/p>\n
Projected Lineups<\/p>\n
Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n
Kirill MarchenkoAdam FantilliIsac LundestromCole SillingerCharlie CoyleDanton HeinenMason MarchmentBoone JennerConor GarlandMiles WoodSean MonahanKent Johnson<\/p>\n
Zach WerenskiDante FabbroIvan ProvorovDenton MateychukJake ChristiansenErik Gudbranson<\/p>\n
Jet GreavesElvis Merzlikins<\/p>\n
Montreal<\/p>\n
Cole CaufieldNick SuzukiJuraj SlafkovskyAlexandre TexierOliver KapanenIvan DemidovAlex NewhookPhillip DanaultKirby DachJoe VelenoJake EvansJosh Anderson<\/p>\n
Mike MathesonNick SuzukiJayden StrubleLane HutsonAdam EngstromArber Xhekaj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 27, 2024; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski (8) and Montreal Canadiens right wing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-550565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal-canadiens","8":"tag-canadiens","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-montreal","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-montrealcanadiens","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116387962386841622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}